Drumconnick

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumconnick, from 206 m² to 148,930 m² (14.89 ha, 36.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  for alterations to existing dwelling (previously approved under Pl. Ref No. 19302) to include alterations to plans, elevations, dwelling orientation, site layout, site boundaries & all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560245

• 7 May 2025N/a

  for retention of development at Drumbar, Cavan, Co. Cavan. The development consists of the retention of alterations to existing dwelling (previously approved under Pl. Ref No. 19302) to include alterations to plans, elevations, dwelling orientation, site layout, site boundaries & all ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560222

• 18 Dec 2024N/a

  for retention of alterations to site layout, house orientation, site boundaries and all ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2460627

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  to 1. construct new fully serviced dwelling, 2. detached domestic garage, 3. entrance walls and piers and 4. install waste water treatment system and percolation area and carry out associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20594

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  to retain a two storey extension to the rear along with all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19471

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  to alter previously approved dormer type dwelling (Pl. ref. 19/45) and all ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Cavan County Council, 19226

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  to form extensions to front, side and rear together with alterations to roof, upgrading of sewerage treatment system and relocation of entrance from public road

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1993

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, form entrance, install sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated works. Existing planning reference 07/794 relates to this application and the application is sought to reduce the size and scale of the previously approved dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17277

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  retain existing domestic Lean-To storage shed

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17153

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  reconfiguration of existing dwelling, conversion of attached garage to habitable accommodation, the erection of a two storey extension, alterations to site layout and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1792

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumconnick.

Recorded monuments

• CV020-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. Identified as a cropmark from aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGL 87).Circular area (int. diam. c. 33.6m) enclosed by a wide, low, ill-defined scarp, presumably the outline of the levelled bank and fosse. Break in scarp at NE may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV025-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse both of which are well preserved from W-N-SSE and ploughed out elsewhere. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV025-140 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape with turloughs. A circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 65m E-W; c. 60m N-S) defined by a slight bank at N and NE but mostly by a scarp is visible on Google Earth (07/02/2019). A defunct NE-SW railway line from Mullingar to Cavan town is just to the NW. It is also visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013) and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore 11 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1790, with corrugated-iron lean-to to west gable and return to rear. Formerly also in use as post office. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with bands below caps and clay pots, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Bipartite windows in moulded render surrounds to outer bays at both levels, having one-over-one sash windows to upper storey and timber casements to ground floor, all with painted sills. Central upper floor window having one-over-one sashes in moulded surround. Central entrance door with margin-paned half-glazed timber panelled door. Set slightly back from road.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2051 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Drumconnick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumconnick

Area

956,272 m² (95.63 ha, 236.3 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cavan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavan Rural electoral division: 8,747 people in 2,931 households; 59% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonagonnell, Coras Point, Derrycramph, Drumbar, Edermin, Gartnasillagh, Paddock, Tonymore

Placenames

Drumconnick on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.